Vatican confirms miracle in boy's healing

German nun who lived 100 years ago could be named saint

Published: 04/15/2013 at 10:14 AM

(DENVER POST) —The wheels of canonization grind slowly, but a German nun who lived 100 years ago could be named a saint because the Vatican believes a Colorado Springs boy experienced a miracle in 1999.

Mother Theresia Bonzel, who founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Olpe, Germany, in 1863, is scheduled for beatification in November—a step toward sainthood—as a result of the boy’s miraculous recovery.

Two Colorado Spring nuns prayed to Bonzel on behalf of 4-year-old Luke Burgie, and the events that followed—over the next 14 years—have been closely scrutinized and investigated by church officials and doctors.